Paludiculture is the productive land use of wet and rewetted peatlands that preserves the peat soil and thereby minimizes CO2 emissions and subsidence. Paludiculture comprises various agricultural production systems that target the production of plant- or animal-based commodities – from harvesting vegetation on semi-natural sites to establishing specific permanent crops. Paludiculture uses above-ground biomass, while below-ground biomass, i.e. a major part of the net primary production, remains for peat formation.

Source: EU Peatlands